Law: Song Prints

Hatched last week in the Manhattan
offices of Adman Byron G. Moon was an ingenious scheme to end fabric
design piracy. No matter how novel the design, fabrics cannot be
successfully patented. Yet songs can be copyrighted. Ingenious Mr.
Moon's idea is to use the title or a snatch of the lyric of a
copyrighted song to designate print designs, thus extending to dress
materials Tin Pan Alley's copyright protection. Adman Moon sees no
reason why Night and Day should not identify a black & white print, and
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